Hopefully you don't have to read scarlet letter. Here's literally one sentence from the book:
"It may seem marvelous, that, with the world before her - kept by no restrictive clause of her condemnation of the limits of the Puritan settlement, so remote and so obscure, free to return to her birthplace, or to any other European land, and there hide completely as if emerging into another state of being, and having also the passes of the dark, inscrutable forest open to her, where the wilderness of her nature might assimilate itself with a people whose customs and life were alien from the law that had condemned her - it may seem marvelous, that this woman should still call that place her home, where, and where only, she must needs be the type of shame."
Yep. One sentence. Just an example of why the scarlet letter sucks.
(Fun fact: I was going to write more stuff here, but the sentence is so long that if I were to write any more than this, it would exceed the VM character limit.)